Howdy y'all

The other day I was cleaning out my closet. I would really like some "new" clothes, but since I'm ballin' on a budget lately, I plan to take my clothes into Plateo's Closet (consignment) and trade them in for some new threads. Anyways, that isn't the point of the story...Before the career change, I did work a respectable office job. The office manager of a well known collision center. I had to look nice and I loved shopping at Express for the latest office-wear trends. I wore blazers, dress slacks, dresses, skirts, heels **Side note: heels & homesteading don't mix, but that is a whole different story...)**, jewelry, all of it. Because if I had to sit in that boring office job all day, I should at least look good doing it right?So back to the closet clean out. I have a big closet, no walk-in, but big for a house built in 1898. I haven't had my office job for over a year now and when I started pulling out my old work clothes I had a slight moment of sadness. Not sadness that I was no longer working that job, but just sadness that I may never wear nice clothes again. I'm over exaggerating of course, but you get the idea. Now on any given summer day you will find me in shorts or leggings with a tank top, tie-dye, and maybe a plaid shirt- sometimes mistaken for homeless. Those are now my new work clothes. No one can tell me what I can, and cannot wear. I can wear inappropriate or funny farm shirts every day (I do own a few) and cowboy or mud boots with cut off shorts. Comfort is the only requirement.​Clothes just aren't that important any more. 90% of my clothing and shoes are second hand. I have way different priorities for my money now. There are animals to feed, crops to grow, packaging to buy, equipment to upgrade, the list is never ending. I know that many of you can relate. Priories and goals, they change. And I guess that clothes that you wear do too.You may be asking what the problem is. There is no problem, in fact, I am the happiest I have ever been. The clothing just made me reminisce. To think of how different your life can become in only three short years. How many roadblocks we have hurdled, how many friends we have made, and how many lives we may have impacted.